Wilf Searle, President of the WBSA announced to much furore that they would be launching a new tournament called the Ashes to celebrate the life and death of Alex Higgins. He denied that this could be confused with the equally pointless event of the same name in the cricket world. Wilf claims "how can it possibly be confused, cricket is about a tortous, dull, meaningless game played over a matter of days with a with a couple of old bits of wood.."